tmsr - Log 2018-11-28

mircea_popescu: so i got a bunch of danielpbarron pingbacks from like 2016 for some reason (beat that, rw mail services)! among which one for http://danielpbarron.com/2016/are-you-thankful/

asciilifeform: lol possibly asciilifeform loses championship crown of 'whose www b0rked the longest'

mircea_popescu: danielpbarron i'll confess trying to follow the logic of your articles fails here. do you even want to be in the lordship then ?

danielpbarron: bitcoin is still an interest of mine, and i enjoy the position. I'm very much invested in it between maintaining a node and my holdings in Eulora

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: are you still running FG dealership ?

mircea_popescu: but i mean... it's not "build on biblical principles". nor is it going to be.

mircea_popescu: in fact, as the only sovereign, it is literally the superior node of god in general, and of any statement of divinity, whether it originates with some guy in rural oklahoma or rural canaan.

danielpbarron: it's not wrong for me to be involved, although it wouldn't be good for me to become a partner in business with people who don't believe

asciilifeform at one point tried to systematically fit in head danielpbarron's theology, but it appears to be at least as complicated as ffa; broke teeth

mircea_popescu: danielpbarron nevermind involved, that's not the topic. you say you want to be in the lordship, but that you disagree with the fundamental premises of the whole thing. well, how do you reconcile these ?

danielpbarron: if a requirement of being a lord is that i have to call tmsr the true and only god, then i do not want to be called one

mircea_popescu: i don't even know it's a requirement. for that matter, it's not clear how precisely the republic would even come to notice something as ridiculously trivial as whatever religious belief (unless i suppose you end up doing dumb shit "because of it", but even then, 0 difference between "religion" and "but then i got high" or w/e).

mircea_popescu: i'm rather curious what goes on in your own mind, which is why i said i don't follow the logic. "i wanna be in the lordship though i don't think the republic makes sense". well ?!

danielpbarron: well it doesn't make sense like any government doesn't make sense, but this is the best one I know of

mircea_popescu: so then the contention is essentially that your other religious notions are in the end irrelevant to you ?

mircea_popescu: sorta like "well, i should diet, in principle. meanwhile, this profiterol is the only dessert that doesn't suck, so give me another" ?

danielpbarron: i don't think it is wrong to be involved in this or any other government, in principle

asciilifeform remembers old su joak. orthodox j00 kid is going to town for 1st time. asks, 'rebbe, there are many temptations in the city, what should i avoid looking at' 'waddayamean' 'well, i heard there are chix' 'what of'em?' 'well, i hear there's them strippers... good jew should not look at strippers?' 'you can look at strippers' 'there are bare cunts! really, good jew can look at cunts?!' 'yes' 'so what ~shouldn't~ a good jew look at

mircea_popescu: danielpbarron you keep bringing it to this "involved". the discussion is not at the level of "being involved", as the lowest possible standard. the discussion is being part of the lordship, as the highest possible standard.

mircea_popescu: let's try different terminology : why would you want to be one of the dozen-or-so "apostles" of this pizzeria owner by the name melchisedec, if you believe the other jesus guy, in the trattoria down the street, is the true pastafarian in town ?!

mircea_popescu: not a matter of "well, when coming from out of town pizzeria is closer, whereas when going out of town trattoria is closer, so whatever, depending on how hungry i am i sit where it happens"

danielpbarron: i don't see the two being exclusive of each other. If you are saying that I don't do enough here, I can't disagree. But the reason for not doing enough isn't that I am morally opposed to it. If i'm to be removeed as lord it should be because I have been too lazy about it; not that it was in irreconcilable conflict with my religious beliefs

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: if it aint a mega-seekrit -- what is it that you do with most of yer time ?

asciilifeform: dare i to ask how that worx ? what is it, ...eat mushroom and watch cartoons on ceiling?

asciilifeform: ...reddit ?

asciilifeform: the good news is that it's curable

asciilifeform: ( but gotta want to be cured )

danielpbarron: i would like to be as productive in my free time as i used to be in my professional life ☟︎

mircea_popescu: different, i grant, from the usual "find some dependocunt to worship along with her spawn", but rather in coloring than substance.

mircea_popescu: i'm starting to see a pattern here. "republic is unbiblical but i wanna be in the lordship, sloth is bad but what i do is not much, etc". you know, the principal theory as to ~why~ the catholics go to hell is specifically the trade in "indulgences", which is to say, EXACTLY that procedure ?

mircea_popescu: there can be such a thing as a naive practicing catholic, you know. what one says isn't the be all end all.

mircea_popescu: or stop saying things that can't be done. either because meaningless, self-contradictory, unimportant, whatever.

mircea_popescu: i never heard before of some guy who CAN live independently, moving to rural shithole to not be bothered, and then having ~same to show for a year of his life as mod6. at least that dood is holding down a job and a coupla kids meanwhile. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: you do understand the part where most guys in the lordship would very much LIKE to be able to move to fucking stickville and just not have to deal with the whole pile of crap.

trinque: wanton use of the declarative cuts both ways. this internalized "because bible, full stop" can just as easily "because on my ass is what I do, full stop".

trinque: drug users (see: g_l) do this, go around declaring doctrines like lisplinux-chimera god and inventing pegleg rituals of devotion to her ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: trinque: lulzily, i recently looked at the https://github.com/gabriel-laddel/masamune thing : lo and behold, 'Latest commit b7332fe on Apr 6, 2017' << prolly d00d is truly dead ☟︎

trinque: kid was dead when his mother let the state give him amphetamines while his brain was developing.

asciilifeform: trinque: hrm, i thought he took it up as grown man

asciilifeform not expert on q of typical disease progression in subj

mircea_popescu: they do this "declare the few boys showing signs of not being femtarded sick ; and then treat them" .

asciilifeform: trinque: escaped ? or didja have to 'cold turkey' or wat

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform isn't it the height of cargo cultist idiocy, this "6 character commit ids" thing shithub does.

asciilifeform: 'child shrink' racket created, or so i hear, '9000' exciting new diseases

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they're really e.g. https://github.com/gabriel-laddel/masamune/commit/b7332fe26e69ff4d60f075f3c21179cd1eae8bae , they do the kochtard 'short fp' thing in the ui

diana_coman: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-28#1875644 -> so wanting to be a lord while at the same time needing someone to use a whip on you already? ☝︎☟︎

a111: Logged on 2018-11-28 01:04 danielpbarron: i would like to be as productive in my free time as i used to be in my professional life

asciilifeform: diana_coman: lol, maybe he wants to be vassal

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-28#1875663 << btw, ftr i was apparently wrong about this : there's a single solitary comment from the d00d on some shithub somewhere, from ~week ago. ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-11-28 01:40 asciilifeform: trinque: lulzily, i recently looked at the https://github.com/gabriel-laddel/masamune thing : lo and behold, 'Latest commit b7332fe on Apr 6, 2017' << prolly d00d is truly dead

asciilifeform: ( maybe he was in bum jail ? )

asciilifeform: while on subj: https://github.com/gabriel-laddel/masamune/blob/master/culture.lisp << lulzy

asciilifeform: ( http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/vpNY3/?raw=true << plain txt, for folx who have lulhub nullrouted )

asciilifeform: trinque: reminds me of terry davis's pile of ?

asciilifeform: ( see also old thrd where http://btcbase.org/log/2014-03-05#548267 ) ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2014-03-05 23:10 asciilifeform: the mechanism in their heads that is needed to dis-invest in an unproductive line of inquiry breaks.

asciilifeform: trinque: consider, d00d went off the rails, but could have instead built cuntoo , 2y ago. ☟︎

asciilifeform: ( iirc he was nearly barking up the right tree, with the auto-builder thing )

asciilifeform: ohai amberglint

amberglint: asciilifeform: I found someone who can decap your Ivory: http://www.seanriddle.com/decap.html

amberglint: this is the decapping that got me interested, he even transcribed the microcode ROM: http://www.seanriddle.com/scn68000c8n64.html

asciilifeform: amberglint: do ya think you can persuade him to come here ?

asciilifeform: let him come, reg his pubkey, get in wot.

asciilifeform: i only got 2 ivories, they're a nonrenewable resource

amberglint: hopefully he won't lose interest if I make him go through the standard procedure here ☟︎

asciilifeform: took me >10y to get'em, and could take another 20yr to get another.

asciilifeform: amberglint: that's the basic litmus test. if comes, gets in wot, then ~possibly~ serious ☟︎

amberglint: "I do have to warn that although I’ve had very good luck decapping chips and getting pictures, I have had some failures and there is always the possibility that I could damage the chip so badly that pictures would not be useful."

asciilifeform: i believe

asciilifeform: simply, they're ~priceless rembrandts, and i'd rather not send one to a d00d sight-unseen

asciilifeform: iirc phf already gave one to some d00d who never came back

asciilifeform: the die shots on the linked page look decent, but not high res enuff to actually work from ( is he hard up for hosting, and reluctant to put 500MB photo ? )

amberglint: haven't asked that yet, but he did transcribe a ROM so I guess he has higher res ones

asciilifeform: http://www.seanriddle.com/sc1die.html << suggests that this is the case, the link to 'Here's a 17436x15128 pixel version (HD View on another server)' goes to some microshit site that doesn't actually load for me ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: also that signetics is iirc a 3.5uM process. i dunno if he ever did a 1uM die

asciilifeform: ( none of the listed items seems to be even a 2uM, much less 1 )

asciilifeform: if this were any other ic, i'd say 'gift horse', but in this case 'sapper errs once' ( or , i suppose, twice.. )

asciilifeform: anyway if he comes -- we'll talk

asciilifeform: thx amberglint

asciilifeform: ( for n00bz -- decapping, even if done perfectly, is irreversible process, we dun know how many layers even in ivory, and to take pic of n+1st layer gotta dissolve the n-th... )

asciilifeform: and 1uM was just about the last process where optical microscopy yields anyffin ☟︎

asciilifeform: it's right about on the borderline of what can be done with that instrument

phf: asciilifeform: before you agree to a decap, give me some more time to get you the docs, maybe they'll be enough to get things going. i'd hate to lose an ivory to get some pretty but useless pictures, i'd rather it fry on a breadboard in the process of directed discovery ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: phf: aite

asciilifeform: phf: tho imho ideally, we'd still get a decap of #2 after #1 is happily in a ersatz-ivory board and booting the full archaeological soft stack

asciilifeform: ( there could, for instance, be instructions in the physical device that bolix never had a chance to use in os, but exist in some last-days userland proggy like ns etc )

asciilifeform: i also suspect that there is coad that won't work without ~cycle-accurate~ copy of the cpu ( the periodic barfage of the 'official' emulator suggests this -- did they use empty loop delays in place of mutexes, or what, i do not yet know )

asciilifeform: phf: i'm hoping i dun have to wait another full year for those docs...

phf: busywait, cadr particularly is full of it. and yes reliance on particular cpu timing. i suspect there's a limited amount of it, but enough to make fast emulation buggy

asciilifeform: i also suspect that this experiment will need the contents of whatever's in those roms on the ivory3

asciilifeform: ( iirc they contain bringup microcoad )

asciilifeform: https://archive.is/jvkUK << photo of ivory-2 . appears to contain 1 rom, prolly no moar than a 32kB, going by the pin count.

asciilifeform was never able to find a high-res photo of ivory-3. perhaps phf has ?

asciilifeform: there's a buncha shit-res jpg on the net, but they all have the cache daughterboard mounted, which obscures half of the card

asciilifeform: yes i know who he is.

phf: asciilifeform: that's for the logs, i just thought it was a particularly goofy picture

asciilifeform: all these folx seem quite alike, 9000 mug shots of grinning muzzle, and 0 highres jpeg of board ☟︎

asciilifeform: much less rom dump

asciilifeform: ( srsly, nobody has a fiddybux TL866a and 10 minutes and can be arsed ?! )

asciilifeform: it's a socketed rom. if yer hands dun grow from arse, there's 0 risk of killing it

asciilifeform brb;meat

asciilifeform: phf: imho the ultimate bolix caper would be to rack a coupla working clones at pizarro & rent'em out. but admittedly this is , presently, nearly as far as the moon ☟︎

asciilifeform: ( for n00bz -- racking an actual bolix is afaik a nonstarter -- the remaining units lack not only the requisite 24/7 reliability / component life , but also any means to cleanly wash the whore between customers, the way i do with e.g rk )

asciilifeform: the mechanics of use is actually 'easy part' -- they take x11 pipe over tcp, and are pretty light on graphics (1bit raster)

asciilifeform: ( see, e.g., thread http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-12#1450695 ) ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2016-04-12 21:42 asciilifeform: symbolics co. sold quite a few boxes ~the only~ UI to which was x11 over the lan.

asciilifeform: next up : the number 3137 sentenced to 20 yrs in gulag. ( for being prime and 3137ist scum on top! )

BingoBoingo: I suspect USG is going to try pushing some power ranger to an ethereum type "evil address" fork

asciilifeform: hey, phree coin.

asciilifeform: like the bch thing last yr.

asciilifeform: what's not to like.

BingoBoingo: Well it could be the opportunity for USG to try capturing lords still stuck behind the wire for breaking obscure rules in the where the fuck did that come from book

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: as mircea_popescu is quite fond of pointing out, they can shoot these any time they like , by 'oops wrong address for swat'; no particular need for oddball new fatwas for that

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i for instance prolly good for three or four hangings, simply on what's in the l0gz ☟︎

BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: You forget the criminal organization is its own species of especially superstitious orc. They have their rituals too.

asciilifeform: oh and guten tag mircea_popescu

a111: Logged on 2018-11-28 01:35 trinque: drug users (see: g_l) do this, go around declaring doctrines like lisplinux-chimera god and inventing pegleg rituals of devotion to her

a111: Logged on 2018-04-13 20:10 zx2c4: mircea_popescu: this article is about making a company right? i'm not doing that. im just writing painstaking careful code and giving it to the world for free

a111: Logged on 2018-11-28 10:16 diana_coman: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-28#1875644 -> so wanting to be a lord while at the same time needing someone to use a whip on you already?

mircea_popescu: "'вялотекущая шизофрения'" lol. that thing's noit even tewibwu.

a111: Logged on 2018-11-28 15:41 asciilifeform: trinque: consider, d00d went off the rails, but could have instead built cuntoo , 2y ago.

a111: Logged on 2018-11-01 17:43 mircea_popescu: looky, the past 3 days' work could have been done just as well in 2015 as today.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc he had a self-building-to-ext-hdd gentoo thing ( but naturally 0 clue as to what-next )

asciilifeform: then again i personally have nfi what % ran and what % 'spreading worx'

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-28#1875700 << really, a lot cheaper to make a decapper than to make another ivory. so i rather hope he does lose interest, if he's the sort of http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-04#1839459 retard. ☝︎☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-11-28 15:44 amberglint: hopefully he won't lose interest if I make him go through the standard procedure here

a111: Logged on 2018-08-04 20:58 mircea_popescu: !!rate cnomad -10 scammer, ran off with a dime.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: phf rubbed in this point further downthread

asciilifeform inclined to agree

a111: Logged on 2018-11-28 15:50 asciilifeform: http://www.seanriddle.com/sc1die.html << suggests that this is the case, the link to 'Here's a 17436x15128 pixel version (HD View on another server)' goes to some microshit site that doesn't actually load for me

asciilifeform: btw i'd kinda like to give those ivories to mircea_popescu for safekeep, if he agrees ( they're pocket-sized, so not 'pogo crate' )

asciilifeform: it'd suck to have'em vanish simply cuz asciilifeform were killed

asciilifeform: well it'd be mircea_popescu's gold then. but if he dun feel like it, is entirely ok.

mircea_popescu: ty, but have some crown jewels. what am i, the inca here ? http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-10#1613027 and all that ? ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2017-02-10 16:28 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, in a very much unrteported move, frankfurt got 300 tons of gold from new york.

asciilifeform: aite.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-28#1875720 << for my own curiosity : do they actually do interferometry when decapping ? ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-11-28 15:59 asciilifeform: and 1uM was just about the last process where optical microscopy yields anyffin

mircea_popescu: (doesn't have to be stereo or live or anything. just take multiple photos ~in multiple lights~ and then have a computer diff the results, same end product)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: only if there's 2 dies suspected of subtle diff

asciilifeform: tho yer thinking of 'comparison microscope' ( like at old-style police stations for ballistics ) rather than interferometer

asciilifeform: ah confocal micro ?

mircea_popescu: you put in a violet source, take a pic. next you put in a green source, take a pic. next, yellow and red. ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: ah not afaik

mircea_popescu: THEN you reconstruct the ~real~ edges of a material, to get a better resolution final pic.

asciilifeform: tho it strikes me as a thing that oughta boost res

asciilifeform: not so much optical microscopy in current-day reversing biz ( not so many people bringing 1980s dies.. )

mircea_popescu: of course it does, we had something like this because shitty microscope on fog room.

asciilifeform: there's a standard microscope for this, i had one when i used fluorescent markers in meat work

asciilifeform: ( but afaik not sop in ic-rev-for-coin labs currently )

mircea_popescu: not like it costs anything. though-- i expect the software doesn't actually exist.

asciilifeform: software is a 'can write later'. the photo gotta exist 1st.

mircea_popescu: yeah. minus possible "oh, really, you know what ? shoulda taken them ~like this~" backflow.

asciilifeform: right

asciilifeform: hence 'they're nonrenewable, d00d, measure not 7 but 7777 times before cutting 1ce'

mircea_popescu: not bloody likely, physics is physics, but sometimes soft edges, "you'd gain a 20% benefit for a 1% cost" you don't see till you see it.

asciilifeform: in a hypothetical peacetime when asciilifeform'd have free hands to do this personally, would start with a crate of less-rare contemporary 1uM die (e.g. 386) 1st

asciilifeform: z80 is a much larger-featured item, so not directly applicable. 386/486 is the ticket.

asciilifeform: ( you'd want to test system on sumthing with comparable 'micronicity' )

asciilifeform: if this were a moneyed proj, i'd go straight to the electronists

asciilifeform: slight overkill, but ~guaranteed detail.

asciilifeform: 'ivory' is somewhat unique case, imho, i dun expect to ever run across another 1980s item that even begins to merit this treatment.

asciilifeform: (so developing entire process for 1um dies, prolly not worth the candles)

mircea_popescu: if you say i believe. anyway, above described approach really should be the standard. if it isn't / until it is, i'd say premature to decap ivories.

asciilifeform: either it or electron is the ticket, aha

asciilifeform: if i end up doing the job with own hands, it'll be with mircea_popescu's method, i dun have electron microscope or the floor space to erect one

asciilifeform: ( tho what asciilifeform most direly lacks, is the ~time~, hence open to the idea of another pair of hands doing it. just, would MUCH rather it be l1 hands than some ??? folk )

asciilifeform: !Q later tell phf i did finally turn up a high-res (enuff to read the ic labels) shot of ivory2; http://www.loper-os.org/pub/ivory2.jpg << mirrored. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: we used to beat the shit out of the "depeche mode" morons in the 90s. wtf did you do!

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for the obj reason, who else takes 'me, me, me' mug shot with 0 particular reason

mircea_popescu: what's that dumb fuck with the bad audio driver / pid eins nonsense ? practically same exact cocksucker, where do they even find them.

asciilifeform: !Q later tell phf turns out i was wrong re the rom, the rom-shaped object is actually a 1980s 'programmable event timer' thingie, am2971adc ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: poettering ?

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-28#1875738 << exactly! and the same fucking mugs! the same everythings! ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-11-28 17:15 asciilifeform: all these folx seem quite alike, 9000 mug shots of grinning muzzle, and 0 highres jpeg of board

mircea_popescu: 1984's "bug-like man" was not exactly on point. apparently the socialist future breeds these boyish abominations.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-28#1875744 << do you recall that time we visited some moron running "a museum", who was going to do exactly this ? ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-11-28 18:14 asciilifeform: phf: imho the ultimate bolix caper would be to rack a coupla working clones at pizarro & rent'em out. but admittedly this is , presently, nearly as far as the moon

asciilifeform: indeed

asciilifeform: imho gotta be clones tho, orig will release magic smoke if run for coupla 100 hrs, optimistically, and no one will fix.

asciilifeform: ( e.g. capacitor, can replace, if one knows where, a la http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1871 ; but there are other pieces )

mircea_popescu: trinque you see any problem with !!withdraw 149w62rY42aZBox8fGcmqNsXUzSStKeq8C 0.1337 / !!withdraw 1AjZPMsnmpdK2Rv9KQNfMurTXinscVro9V 0.1337 ?

mircea_popescu: schmucks wanna break fungibility, gotta learn all they can break is their precious "orifice" or w/e it's called.

asciilifeform: it actually wasn't clear from the fatwa, whether the pertinent folx are already on the stake in washington, and preet has the privkey, or loose

asciilifeform: if whole crock o'shit is a scheme to win a titcoin or two from mircea_popescu , gotta give points for originality

mircea_popescu: 0fb6460fcb88a0fbdc85d4f3b9505e69814ceacb3effd20b427d1b8d5689094e / 09c078a4040b1a044dc654e005bcc8b4c23523393d5244fd9c47408968555640 i see mempool txn right now. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: ae43769a90036b85792c606a0d46e7a0e8c47189f9e5ceaed4bf45979e27c12b << last confirmed, 11th current.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the fatwa claims winblowz cryptodisk-flavoured virii 'ransom' addr, so prolly 9000 tx

mircea_popescu: amusingly, average income payment is 4 digits, keks. i'd be sending what, 1k x wjhat they make ? roflmao.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fwiw asciilifeform personally reversed coupla hundred 'ransomware' trojan turds, almost always the addr is ~empty

asciilifeform: it's a cargocult, for the most part, a la spam.

asciilifeform: ~nobody pays, folx format their hdds and cry into drink

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the WHOLE thing is the posturing involved. it really sticks in teh usg's craw whenever it runs into real world not giving a shit about what its mommy told it.

asciilifeform: orlov

asciilifeform: ( believe or not, still inbiz )

asciilifeform: e.g. today,s , https://archive.is/HpYAW

asciilifeform: ( and actually on subj )

asciilifeform: yes him

asciilifeform: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-power-of-nyet.html << mircea_popescu's subj

mircea_popescu: anyway, he pretty much has it -- the "no" is deeply corrosive for the fucktarded brain. and the model exactly is, coddled mommyboi goes out of fenced area and gets assraped.

mircea_popescu: The corrosive psychological effect of “nyet” on the American hegemonic psyche cannot be underestimated. If you are supposed to think and act like a hegemon, but only the thinking part still works, then the result is cognitive dissonance. If your job is to bully nations around, and the nations can no longer be bullied, then your job becomes a joke, and you turn into a mental patient. << pretty much exact.

asciilifeform: wb Mocky

Mocky: mircea_popescu, BingoBoingo re wires #1 and #2 that I sent: #1 came back 'cancelled' after 3 days, #2 went to 'completed' after 1 day. I retried #1 (less 1 dollar) and it now is 'completed' after 1 day. BingoBoingo can you verify if actually arrived at bank?

BingoBoingo: Latest G20 lulz is Argentina is going to see if they can afford to buy a nuclear power plant and management of said plant from Russia

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-28#1875841 << twist : thing has 622 bits of antifuse-rom state. ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-11-28 19:44 asciilifeform: !Q later tell phf turns out i was wrong re the rom, the rom-shaped object is actually a 1980s 'programmable event timer' thingie, am2971adc

asciilifeform: ( i expect they used it as clock & address latch generator )

Mocky: so many of the jobs out there want secret government clearance now, jeez. who do they think they are kidding with their super secret shit ☟︎

Mocky: cisco's hiring 2 miles down the road, "Colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco #GIS #SDx" good luck with that, lol

BingoBoingo: Mocky: In my corner of old country that's how things have been for a few years. Want a tech job? Take you pick of Boeing, mystery contractors scattered in strip malls around the airforce base, or put up with commuting to Saint Louis proper

asciilifeform: Mocky: typically cisco grunts 'clearanced' not even for any interesting seekrit, but simply to be permitted on the grounds in usg dc where they cart the crates to

asciilifeform: kinda like how they used to have 'clearanced' firemen, to put out fires in usg shitholes

asciilifeform: ( but no moar, can't afford, in the words of actual live usg seekrecy politruk , to asciilifeform : 'today instruction is 'let it burn' ' )

asciilifeform: ( d00d had pretty good gig: opened safe in the morning, closed in evening, and played 'wow' all day... ) ☟︎

trinque: mircea_popescu: lulzy, but my coffers aren't stocked up for a supreme court fight just yet ☟︎

asciilifeform: ( took place in a typical salt mine, with mix of what passes for normal folks, and 'cleared'; asciilifeform ended up resigning, rather than taking holy orders , was quite loathesome pit in 9000 ways )

asciilifeform: trinque: i suspect was moar of a 'plug embrasure of pillbox' idea than 2waymission

asciilifeform: in other lulz : https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1lb-14-7oz-vintage-symbolics-vsli-242998915 << photo of what appears to be a pile of bolix ivories, sold for (!) gold recycler recently. epic.

asciilifeform: ^ 26, to be exact, 'ivories' ( the rest weitek and 3620 rubbish )

asciilifeform: meanwhile in spam traps : 'usd coin! buy and sell for $1.00, where supported'

Mocky: these jobs requiring 'clearanced' is actually quite handy, easy filter criteria ☟︎

asciilifeform: ( spam did not see it fit to mention what, precisely, happens if you sell it for 5cents... lightning strikes ? )

asciilifeform: Mocky: funnily enuff, they dun always bother to mention. i get spam calls erry week, where d00d pitches 'x,y,z,exactly what you do,come work for us' 'ts/sci ?' 'of course' ~click~

asciilifeform would luvv to http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-28#1875656 and never answer pnojes again, but not in the cards yet ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-11-28 01:31 mircea_popescu: i never heard before of some guy who CAN live independently, moving to rural shithole to not be bothered, and then having ~same to show for a year of his life as mod6. at least that dood is holding down a job and a coupla kids meanwhile.